I spent the summer of 1970 working in the Pittsburgh-DesMoines steel fabrication plant in Santa Clara, which was ironically right in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Having just read Wendy Piersall’s very sharp post Can Waiting on Tables Teach you to be an Entrepreneur over on Rags to Riches, I’d like to list how the steel plant job led me onwards and upwards. Wendy has a really good list. I don’t.
What I learned during the summer in the steel plant was that I didn’t want any more summers in the steel plant.
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October 8th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Tim, you are VERY funny!
I should have added a lesson to my list as well that echo’s yours - I really hated waiting tables and I was desperate for a way out, too.